Kim Ratz

Keynote:

Kim features his core message about attitude, choices and congruence in this 60 minute keynote. Each presentation is customized to each group to make it timely, relevant and useful, includes examples of application specific to their work, and features original music written for each audience. Here's the description:

• Tons of Tips & Tunes for Thrivers
  "It's not so much what happens, it's more what you do." Easier said than done, especially when you face a change, challenge or conflict regarding someone or something important to you. Its about choosing to do more than "just get by"; you need to choose to "thrive!" It's about making good choices so that at the end of the day when you look back on your choices - what you did/said and how you did/said it - you feel content, not regret. It's about being Congruent, by aligning your Attitudes (beliefs & values), with your Aptitudes (skills & abilities) and your Actions (words & deeds). By living congruently you can look back on your day and know you did what you thought was the right/best thing, and you did the best you could. What more could you or anyone ask?! This program is designed to help participants:
  1. Get inspired again about what you CAN do better by understanding your "WIIFMs" (what's in it for me) to keep growing and improving,
  2. Learn several techniques to help you reframe a situation so that you feel more confident about what you CAN do,
  3. Learn tips to help you "manage your own morale," pick yourself up when you get knocked down, and deal with difficult people or tense situations involving a change and "the unknown,"
  4. Develop a goal for personal development that integrates or strengthens one or more of these tips to help you be more congruent and thrive even more in your important life roles and goals.

Workshops:

Kim's featured workshop about achieving more harmony/congruence in our RELATIONSHIPS with people is called -Playing Nice in the Sandbox. This program has been extremely well received by all kinds of groups of people whose jobs require communication, teamwork, and customer service skills to get the work done. (Note: Full and half-day programs include the message in the keynote above, plus the unique content in this program.d by the skills sets to review how to do this within a team. All programs are customized to include specific references to each groups' job roles and challenges, and also include music at the beginning and end of the program to reinforce key points. Here's the description:

• Playing Nice in the Sandbox (2-3 hours, or full day)
  Since we were children we've been learning how to deal with people who "don't play nice" and make working with them a challenge. No matter how many times we've already done this, when this happens at work it still has an impact. The good news is: You can make good choices - even when challenged by someone who "doesn't play nice." Review choices you can make that are professional, respectful, effective, and regret-free, and -- can lead to a safer, more productive, and pleasant "sandbox" to be a part of every day. This program is a hybrid of information and skills from the topics of - Communication & Relationship Skills, Teamwork, Leadership, & Customer Service ... We'll explore some practical, professional and proven things you can do when someone at work "isn't playing nice in the sandbox" and you know things can be better. In this program you'll learn:
  1. How to maintain congruence so at least you are doing what you think is the right thing, and doing the best you can.
  2. How to influence others in positive ways in individual relationships, as well as your team.
  3. How to anticipate predictable, normal and survivable scenarios when "someone might not play nice" - before that happens - so you can be somewhat prepared.
  4. What you CAN do when challenged by someone who isn't playing nice in the workplace - or anywhere, so you can make good choices you can live and work with and not regret later ...

Other Topics Available --

Kim shares some additional expertise by offering workshops to cover the following topics. They are also based on the core message in the keynote, and most of them further build on the content skills covered in the "Sandbox" program above. All of these workshops are designed with approximately 2-3 hours in mind, and some can be done in 60 minute formats to fit a concurrent workshop timeframe at a conference or convention. Kim can send you more information about the description and content of these programs if you are interested. The "*" means it could also be given as a keynote or at a general session of some type. The additional topics include:

• A unique group process, & Training of Trainers: "Open Space Technology"
  (note: This process gets people involved in topics they care about, they can get a lot of things accomplished or at least started, and it's a great way to wrap up a day long program. PLUS - it's a process technique that's easy for participants to learn so they can use it again in their own work.)
  
  
• Attitude & Relationship skills: "Success is Liking What You Do" *
  
  
• Attitude & Challenge: "Fight or Flight or Find a New Flow" *
  
  
• Change: "How to Thrive in a Radically Changing World" *
  
  
• Collaboration: "Collaboration & Community Involvement Strategies for the 21st Century"
  
  
• General/Fun: "Songwriting workshop"
  
  
• General/Advocacy: "Making Children Top Priority" *
  
  
• Leadership: "People Don't Leave Jobs - They Leave Bosses"
  
  
• Parenting: "The Fun & Frenzy of Fatherhood"
  
  
• Public Relations: "PR is Not a Bad Word"
  
  
• Teamwork: "The X & Y Factor: Bridging the Generation Gap at Work"
  
  
• Teamwork: "Rx for Members of Boards & Committees"
  
  
• Teamwork: "Bridging the Gender Gap - Issues in Communication"
  
  
• Unique to your group: "Emcee, Amateur Auctioneer, and Other Customized Programs and Services As Able to Accommodate your Requests."

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